Laser-induced nonlinear dynamics in a nematic liquid-crystal film
- 19 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 64 (12), 1377-1380
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.1377
Abstract
An elliptically polarized cw laser beam propagating in a nematic liquid-crystal film can induce molecular reorientation and lead the system through various dynamic regimes: torsional oscillations, precession, nutation with precession, and others.Keywords
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